Sunday, July 02, 2006

Military Announces Plan to Study Blogs

Military Announces Plan to Study Blogs

Fom TalkLeft. Scary in an SS, Seven Days In May sort of way:

"'The fact that the web is a vast source of information is sometimes overlooked by military analysts,' Kokar said. 'Our research goal is to provide the warfighter with a kind of information radar to better understand the information battlespace.'"


Especially when my traffic log includes hits every day this past week from:

Host Name host147-10.balad.iraq.centcom.mil
IP Address 214.13.147.10
Country United States
Region Ohio
City Columbus
ISP Dod Network Information Center


The second most interesting thing the traffic log has ever shown.

UPDATE: Scratch the immediate paranoia; just a regular reader of the GI variety. Besides, any real-life Colonel Flaggs would cover their tracks well enough to fool me, or at least use The Cloak, a free anonymizer that I've seen turn up recently...

But I do like that phrase "information battlespace." Glad to be fighting. I'll make a better effort to be more inflammatory (I don't support the troops) and treasonous (Bush is a weenie) in the future. Maybe the New York Times is hiring.

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